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Written question asked by Jim Cunningham (Labour) on Wednesday, 6 December 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 11 December 2017 (named day). It was answered by Sam Gyimah (Conservative) on Wednesday, 13 December 2017 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.


Prisoners: Self-harm

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of self-harm incidents by prisoners per prison has been in England and Wales in each of the last five years.

Answer

Details of self-harm incidents occurring in prisons, including a breakdown of incident numbers by establishment, are released by MoJ annually in the Safety in Custody National Statistics bulletin. Data for 2017 will be published in the next release, in April 2018. Average figures for previous years can be derived from table 2.13 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654502/safety-in-custody-self-harm-dec-16.xls.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
117968
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Prisoners Self-harm
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk